Towards a law of invariance in human conceptual behavior

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2580-2585

  Vigo, Ronaldo ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

categorization; concept learning; Concepts; ideotype; law of invariance; mathematical model; pattern perception

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

CATEGORIZATION; CONCEPT; CONCEPT LEARNING; IDEOTYPE; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLE; LAW OF INVARIANCE; MODERN SCIENCE; NATURAL PHENOMENON; PATTERN PERCEPTIONS; RELATIVISTICS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 84884173467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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